The Handbook of Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective

Donal Carbaugh

Dedication

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword, Robert T. Craig

Editorial Team

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Handbook

Chapter 1: Donal Carbaugh, Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective

Unit One: The Idea(l)s of Communication in Cultural Context

Chapter 2: Donal Carbaugh, Terms for Talk, Take 2: Theorizing Communication through its Cultural Terms and Practices

Chapter 3: Igor Klyukanov and Olga Leontovich, Russian Perspectives on Communication

Chapter 4: Camelia Suleiman, Arabic Language Ideology and Communication: An Image from Egypt

Unit Two: Critical Inquiry through Plaintive Forms of Cultural Communication, National Identity

Chapter 5: Nadezhda Sotirova, Oplakvane [complaining] and what it teaches us about Communication in Bulgarian Discourse

Chapter 6: Michaela Winchatz, Jammern [whining] as a German Way of Speaking

Chapter 7: Shi-xu, Cultural Assumptions about Chinese Communication

Unit Three: Cultural Styles of Communication with special attention to Identity

Chapter 8: Cliff Goddard and Rahel Cramer, "Laid back" and "irreverent": An ethno-pragmatic analysis of two cultural themes in Australian English communication

Chapter 9: Michael Haugh, Mockery and (non-) seriousness in initial interactions amongst American and Australian speakers of English

Chapter 10: Todd Sandel, Hsin-I Yueh and Peih-ying Lu, Some Distinctive Taiwanese Communication Practices and their Cultural Meanings

Chapter 11: Richard Wilkins, The Optimal Form and its use in Cross-Cultural Analysis: A British "Stiff Upper Lip" and a Finnish Matter-of-fact Style

Chapter 12: Saskia Witteborn and Qian Huang, Diaosi [expressing the underdog] as a Way of Relating in Contemporary China

Unit Four: Electronic and Written Media, Mobile Communication

Chapter 13: Haiyong Liu and Mary Garrett, A Perilous Journey: Intercultural Communication through Translated Novels

Chapter 14: Saila Poutiainen, Finnish Terms for Talk about Communication on a Mobile Phone

Chapter 15: Kwesi Yankah, Mobile Phone Technology: Coping Strategies in African Cultural Practice

Unit Five: Interpersonal Communication, Gender, Respect, Sociability

Chapter 16: Benjamin Bailey, Piropos [amorous flattery] as a cultural term for talk in the Spanish-speaking world

Chapter 17: Patricia Covarrubias, Respeto [respect] in Disrespect: Clashing Cultural Themes withinMexican Immigration Discourses

Chapter 18: Wenshan Jia and Dexin Tian, Chinese Conceptualizations of Communication:Terms for Talk and Practice

Chapter 19: Elena Nuciforo, "Sitting" as a Communication Ritual with special attention to Alcohol Consumption inRussian Culture

Unit Six: Organizational Communication

Chapter 20: Tovar Cerulli, "Ma’iingan is our brother": Ojibwe and non-Ojibwe ways of speaking about wolves

Chapter 21: Leah Sprain, Cultural Communication within Nicaraguan Cooperative Meetings

Chapter 22: Alena Vasilyeva, Mediation Discourse in the United States and Belarus: Culturally Shaped Interactions

Unit Seven: Political Communication

Chapter 23: David Boromisza-Habashi and Gábor Pál, The discourse of dictatorship in Central Eastern Europe, and the case of Hungarian "hate speech"

Chapter 24: Gonen Dori-Hacohen, Israeli online political commenting: Tokbek [talk-back] in between griping and hate-speech

Chapter 25: Zohar Kampf & Tamar Katriel, Political Condemnations: Public Speech Acts and the Moralization of Discourse

Unit Eight: Religious-based Communication

Chapter 26: Abdrabo Abu Alyan The Friday Sermon ‘Khutbah’ at the Mosque: Messages and Emotions

Chapter 27: Sunny Lie, Effective Evangelism: Discourse about Best Evangelical Practices in a Chinese Indonesian Evangelical Christian (CIEC) Community in New England

Chapter 28: Elizabeth Molina-Markham, "Drawing Back to a Sense of the Whole":

Positioning Practices in Quaker Administrative Meetings

Epilogue, Gerry Philipsen